http://club.tgfcer.com/thread-6638884-1-1.htmlI saw that ex-UBI guy in TGFC(that chinese tech forum) talked about the same thing 2 days ago
"上周五项目收到了第一批Durango的Beta Kit，主机超大一个白盒子，新手柄。而且主机和手柄都贴着不规律黑色的胶带条纹，就和新车发布前的伪装似 的。"(Last Friday received the first batch of Durango Beta Kit,console is a huge white box,and new controller.Console and controller are plastered with irregular black stripes tape,like camouflage a new car before announce.)But i didn't post it because it's from April 1 and he said it's dual APU lol
"最重要的是，Beta Kit竟然里面有两个APU，就和之前部分软饭猜测的一样。我操，这下猛了。"(Most important thing is,the beta come with 2 APU,just like some MS fans guess.$#@! that's crazy)

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Interesting... Also refers to the stripes on the controller as the Kotaku article.

"We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that (developers) want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?"
--Kaz Hirai, CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment

Let's pretend it's not april fools japery for 5 seconds. The only way the Durango will have 2 APU's is if the second one is a very low power (probably ARM) unit merely designed for background and standby functions, just like the PS4.

It doesn't have 2 Jaguar based x86 APU's no matter how much you want it. And lol how can you talk about efficiency in one thread then suggest a dual-APU set up in another. Talk about a contradiction.

Let's pretend it's not april fools japery for 5 seconds. The only way the Durango will have 2 APU's is if the second one is a very low power (probably ARM) unit merely designed for background and standby functions, just like the PS4. It doesn't have 2 Jaguar based x86 APU's no matter how much you want it. And lol how can you talk about efficiency in one thread then suggest a dual-APU set up in another. Talk about a contradiction.

Let's pretend it's not april fools japery for 5 seconds. The only way the Durango will have 2 APU's is if the second one is a very low power (probably ARM) unit merely designed for background and standby functions, just like the PS4.

It doesn't have 2 Jaguar based x86 APU's no matter how much you want it. And lol how can you talk about efficiency in one thread then suggest a dual-APU set up in another. Talk about a contradiction.

Err, no that's not the "only way".

I've already told you one way.

Ill quote myself...

Again, I say this, I really do believe the specs will be similar to this.

Let's pretend it's not april fools japery for 5 seconds. The only way the Durango will have 2 APU's is if the second one is a very low power (probably ARM) unit merely designed for background and standby functions, just like the PS4.

It doesn't have 2 Jaguar based x86 APU's no matter how much you want it. And lol how can you talk about efficiency in one thread then suggest a dual-APU set up in another. Talk about a contradiction.

If the second APU was an ARM chip, what would the other half of the die contain? I couldn't see them making a x86 CPU + Radeon GPU and a ARM CPU + Radeon GPU setup.

If it's just an ARM chip, then it's not an APU. It must have another function on the die to qualify as an APU. And on the same die is key. AMD had a true quad core before Intel cuz Intel took two dual-core dies and slapped them together in the same package originally. Intel's true quad-cores came out later.

If the second APU was an ARM chip, what would the other half of the die contain? I couldn't see them making a x86 CPU + Radeon GPU and a ARM CPU + Radeon GPU setup.

If it's just an ARM chip, then it's not an APU. It must have another function on the die to qualify as an APU. And on the same die is key. AMD had a true quad core before Intel cuz Intel took two dual-core dies and slapped them together in the same package originally. Intel's true quad-cores came out later.

AMD have already outlined plans in other sectors of the market for APU's using an ARM CPU core and their own GPU's. So yes it could be an ARM chip inside an AMD APU

all hypothetical of course because this has already been debunked as an april fools.

The current Xbox 720 beta kit contains two APUs, according to a new leak.

TGFC member called BD, who is supposed to be an ex-Ubisoft employee, and who also leaked the Xbox 720 specs earlier which contained an Eight-core CPU and 8 GB RAM, has posted that the latest beta kit for the Xbox 720 has two APUs or dual APUs.

Now this is quite an incredible engineering feat if it is true. This was posted on April 1, however, BD has also posted that the Xbox 720 controllers were covered in irregular black tape stripes, almost camouflage like.

Kotaku had posted their rumour on April 2 and mentioned the same thing about the controller having stripes. So it seems BD’s post was legitimate.

“Last Friday project received the first batch of Durango, Beta Kit, Host oversized white box, new handle,” he wrote (translated from Chinese). “And host and handle are plastered with the irregular black tape stripes, and the new car before the release of camouflage-like. The most important thing is, Beta Kit actually there are two APU.”

Microsoft should be officially revealing their next Xbox sometime later this year. It was originally supposed to be revealed in April, but was delayed by a month.

It is interesting to note that the PS4 has only one APU, so if the final Xbox 720 architecture contains two APUs, it just changes the whole dynamics of next gen competition.

"We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that (developers) want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?"
--Kaz Hirai, CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment

Im just posting info bro, to spark conversation, but I have always believed in the dual SOCs. Im not contradicting myself, I am merely adding to the conversation whether these rumors are true or not they bring discussion.

"We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that (developers) want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?"
--Kaz Hirai, CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment

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